The act of selling your weed isn’t very fun either. Watching weed grow is as exciting as it sounds… Even though you can leave them be and focus on selling whatever weed you have at another screen, you’ll quickly run out of stock, especially in the first few hours of the game. Your plants take a long time to become big enough to be harvested and there are moments in which you will literally be forced to wait for them to grow, all while doing some unnecessary quick-time events in order to improve their quality. You need to grow weed in order to sell it, and the game does a good job at showing the little seeds you grow turn into a plant big enough for you to harvest. Have you ever heard of the expression “watching paint dry”? Well, Weedcraft has something a bit similar.

To be fair, while people make fun of games like Farming Simulator, I doubt they are as boring as the gameplay that Weedcraft has to offer. The only difference is that you’re dealing with ganja and not farm crops. Buy products, sell them at a profit, use said money to buy better equipment, new vending points, and so on. This is, above anything else, a very shallow business simulator. Sadly, in order to actually experience any of those depressing, but potentially interesting storylines, you need to endure the worst part of Weedcraft: playing the damn thing. You need to choose between strengthening ties with other dealers or creating a rival cartel, or just deciding to use politics in your favor. From that moment on, it’s your typical “from rags to riches” plotline with some extra doses of decision making, politics, and choosing between being a legit licensed cannabis retailer or a kingpin. You decide to make a living out of selling weed after being convinced by your brother to sell the joints your father used to smoke to ease the side effects of chemotherapy. Picture this: the game starts off at your father’s funeral. The last thing I expected from a game like this was a grim and borderline depressing storyline. The fact that Weedcraft tries to pull off a joke by telling you that your real life is a lot more boring than playing the game, made me hopeful that I was going to play a stoner comedy in game form. Something in the likes of the best stoner movies out there, like Pineapple Express or any movie starring Cheech and Chong. I was also expecting to fight the law every now and then, and I did experience this as well. I was expecting a game about creating a cannabis empire, and to be fair, I did accomplish that. I was actually curious to see what the developers were going to do with this taboo subject in gaming. I think I need to clarify that I’m not a smoker, but I also don’t advocate against its legalization.

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